As a movie, there's plenty here to respect. As entertainment, however, this is tough one to enjoy, all of which makes Criminal a vexing spectacle that's hard to watch all the way through to its end.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 11, 2016

It's lazy, corrupt and sleazy filmmaking, the kind of film that's killing the business.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2016

We can but pray that scientists invent a procedure to remove the memory of ever watching this film in the first place.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 11, 2016

Costner, in full badass mode, makes this crackpot premise work.

| Apr 28, 2016

The movie is a little more fun than it has any right to be, thanks to its super-serious cast (including Tommy Lee Jones, Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman, and Gal Gadot) and the straight-faced approach to its ridiculous shenanigans.

| Apr 25, 2016

Criminal is a perfectly passable thriller, if you're cool with no one here passing as an actual human being.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 21, 2016

Criminal isn't a very good to begin with. It also wastes a solid cast.

| Apr 21, 2016

All the ingredients are there for a pleasant pander to grumpy old white men: the craggy actors, the foreign bad guys wielding confusing technology, the kindness of beautiful young women, and the nobility of sacrifice.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 21, 2016

[A] fantastically stupid thriller ...

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2016

Orange is the new black for Kevin Costner in Ariel Vroman's crazy sci-fi espionage actioner, a star vehicle that fast and furiously leaps from action set piece to action set piece in an obvious effort to avoid the giant plot holes imperiling the story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2016

It's wanton, low-down entertainment without the flair to pull this stuff off, or the neural stem cells to make wit or logic much of a priority.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 15, 2016

Neither scriptwriters Douglas Cook and David Weisberg nor Vromen in the director's chair are subtle enough to figure out how to do both action and character.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2016

Egregiously silly, generic ...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2016

So much wasted talent. Downright Criminal, it is.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 15, 2016

Half science-fiction tale, half espionage thriller, it's a pleasantly far-fetched endeavor that moves along so briskly that it leaves no time to consider its implausibilities, which are many.

| Apr 14, 2016

It's best not to think about this preposterous story too hard. Just ride it to its even more preposterous climax, enjoying Mr. Costner and a steady supporting cast (Gary Oldman as the C.I.A. honcho; Gal Gadot as Bill's wife) along the way.

| Apr 14, 2016

A violent Kevin Costner B-movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 14, 2016

Costner carries it off with a certain growly-voiced deadpan. Like Liam Neeson, he could get a late-career boost in the action genre. But the extreme ridiculousness of everything lets it down, and the violence is deeply misjudged.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 14, 2016

Criminal is a screwed-up mess as a story and as an action movie with a so-called moral lesson in it. In fact, the more I think about it, the less I like it.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 14, 2016

With its European locations, electro-thump score, and near-ceaseless violence, the movie plays like something tooled in French producer-scripter Luc Besson's factory for international action mashups.

| Apr 14, 2016